Filmodia

A Publication of Noisecontrol Publishing covering film reviews and hollywood scandals and events, Coming at you live and global from the Honeymoon Capital of the World, Niagara Falls. We plan to take those Actors and trade them like baseball cards.

Saturday, May 28, 2005

Finally More Reviews

A Bugs Life – Was an excellent cartoon by Pixar where an unwitting Ant on his Anthill ends up saving his Queen Ant through a series of slapstick events that involve his going out into the larger world to enlist the help of other bugs in a rebellion against the vicious grasshoppers who try to destroy their hill.

Four Stars out of Five!

Close Encounters of the Third Kind – This movie is everything Aliens. It stirred up audiences in 1977 when Richard Dreyfus began building his Mashed Potato sculptures of Devil's Tower at the dinner table and people began hearing the infamous 5 tone communication from the outerworldly beings in an incredible John Williams Score. This was Spielberg at his absolute finest hour, telling a story that is shocking and awe inspiring at all at once.

Five Stars out of Five!

The Color of Money – Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Paul Newman put together an all star cast for this tale of an aging hustler being hustled by his younger Protoge'. It is has some of the most incredible pool footage ever taken with cameras, and to this day, when you watch it, you truly feel like you are behind the 8 ball. The hustle takes them all the way to Vegas, the hard way, where the ultimate showdown between Master and Apprentice makes audiences chill with excitement.

Four Stars out of Five.

Contact – Based on the book Contact by Carl Sagan, this film deals with a signal from another world discovered by Jodie Foster's character who is working for SETI. As a young girl she lost her father, her only remaining parent to a heart attack and through her work is looking to find the “great beyond” and “other worldly intelligence.” There are jokes among the SETI people that she is searching for “Little Green Men.” While there is a grain of cynicism in it, it couldn't be farther from the truth.

Five Stars out of Five.

Crimes and Misdemeanors – This was a Woody Allen piece where Woody's character finds himself confronted with the confessions of a powerful older man who has murdered his lover for the sake of holding together his marriage, because she would not give up on his affections. It is a sobering view of what mankind is cabable and the inscrupulousness of power.

Four Stars out of Five.

The Crow – Brandon Lee stars in this Gothic Action thriller, where he is murdered along with his girlfriend on Hell night in Detroit. Brandon's character comes back to life as a ghostly indestructible clown who avenges his lover's death in an unparalleled vigilante spree of violence and decimation. The Crow is Brandon's power animal, showing up just before and just after he exits the scene, and is inextricably bound to him.Brandon Lee died during this film in the famed gun battle sharing a fate of film death with his father Bruce Lee, who died during the production of the film Game of Death. Their fates, apparently, were also interwoven. People speculate that there was conspiracy to murder, but to my knowledge, this is a crime that has long gone unsolved.

Five Stars out of Five.

Dead Poets Society – Robin Williams leads a cast of infamous teen actors into their late adolescence and into adulthood in this monument to the poetry of the ages. He brings to light as their english instructor at a private university, that life, in all of its beauty and disgust, must be lived to its fullest. The re-popularization of Carpe' Diem or Seize the Day, is lectured, and brought into American Pop against the backdrop of the successes and failures of the students who revive, The Dead Poets Society, and make it their own.

Five Stars out of Five.

The Doors – Val Kilmer plays a stunning Jim Morrison against the backdrop of the late 60's and early 70's as Ray Manzarek and Andy Warhol find their ways into his life as a young film student turned Rock Legend. The entire story of the rise and fall of the Doors, is chronicled in this 3 hour escapade and romp into this Break into the other Side. Director Oliver Stone, took this film exactly where it needed to go, and re-initiated an entire generation that may have lost this treasure trove of Popular Art otherwise.

Five Stars out of Five.

E.T the Extra Terrestrial – E.T., Steven Spielberg's intergalactic masterwork, is about a boy from California who discovered an alien in his back yard. Eliot, and his Brother and sister (Drew Barrymore), hide the alien in the closet, and when his mother checks, she assumes he is a stuffed animal. The Alien is capable of healing powers, and in many ways parallels the story of Christ. He comes to earth, dies to save Eliot and his family from the SETI people who appear very interested in Eliots connection to the alien, and then rises again, and brings a flower back to life to signify this, along with his red brightly beating heart. Eliot and his friends help him to escape with E.T. They take him back into the forest where he leaves Eliot and family with the ultimate message, “Be Good!” and takes his plant samples back into space.

Monday, April 18, 2005

Short Circuit

Short Circuit was a cool movie. I just bought 3 movies on DVD actually. Walmart has an exceptionally good movie library for 5 dollars per film. The other 2 movies that I purchased included Godzilla the Matthew Broderick Version and Point Break with Keanau Reeves.

All three are great movies that I remember from my past, and my friend Kim insisted that we watch my old Legend tape (Tom Cruise) this week as well, so I've actually enjoyed quite a few movies this week. So many that it's tough to focus on a specific title for review.

I'll be around though, so keep reading and build up that DVD library while the sales are on. I saw the Replacement killers with Chow Yun Fat for a couple of bux too. Good deal with the Crystal Method on the soundtrack.

Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Re: Blog Postings

Good Morning from the squeekiest clean account I'veused for this kind of thing. Now i can edit to theblogs with no problems and everything will progressrather quickly.

-Chris--- Chris Bradley wrote:

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Re: Blog Postings

--- Chris Bradley wrote:

> I'm making a new posting scenerio for the blogs.> Hopefully this will clear up some confustion. I'll> be testing in a moment. > > -Chris> > > > Christopher J. Bradley> Noisecontrol Publishing> All the Grog That's Fit To Blog!> > > > >

Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Good Evening Blogs!

Wow, its been so long since I've updated you that it seems like an eternity, but now that we're together again, I have one or two things to say.

To The RST - Glad you've been sticking with us for so long. I know the trials and tribulations have been endless and the world keeps turning. This should update you to the trials and tribulations of the world - http://www.un.org/News/ossg/hilites.htm - If it doesn't please let me know.

To the Midwest East fan club - Keep strong - We're going to take it to the streets again tomorrow morning, and if I don't get a call from our girl soon, we're going to be sailing the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria.

To the Lexicon - Lately I've been reading Bob Dylan and Gibson's Neuromancer. Bob Dylan is pretty interesting. He talks about everyone from Bobby Vee, Ritche Valens, and the Grateful Dead to Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash. He is a folk legend in the making.

To Filmodia - Last night I watched Evita with some friends for about the fiftieth time. I can't get sick of it, I don't know why either. Maybe it has something to do with my seeing it at Melody Fair back in high school when I used to unload the trucks - I guess you could call me a roadie that never hit the road.

And to the Tone Def One - Sorry I've been so lax in updating you. I have definite news though, I have sorted my CD Collection out now into A-M and N-Z like the public library. I had to it's been getting too expansive of late. Someday I'll try to cover all of the artists in here. It's getting even bigger by the minute.

About Me

Christopher Bradley is the published author of the Poetry Books American Mohawk, Dancing Over The Fury, and Alpha Zulu 15:00.
His fully published autobiography appears at First Child of the Digital Age
Chris owns the consulting interest Noise Control Research which has the ability to build websites for customers and tweak resumes for the iPhone.
He has Written on the subjects of Raves, Sweatshops, Literature, Travel, and Music. Current Projects include expanding his interests in film review.
Chris also edits an article every now and again in www.wikipedia.org under the user name Chris Bradley.
If you want to know more about Chris, read the autobiography mentioned above. You are likely to find good contact information there as well.